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This Penguin Threads edition of Anna Sewell's moving novel Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps.

Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and...

This edition is written in bold and font size 24.

Anna Sewell was born into a Quaker family in 1820, and her mother, Mary was a successful children's author. Black Beauty was Anna Sewell's only published work, and she died in 1878, just months after the novel's publication.

As well as being a novel, written to entertain readers, it also teaches kindness towards others, and not least towards horses.

Having sold fifty million copies to date, this classic novel remains as popular today as when it was first published in 1877.

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Viele Leser*innen sind mit Kindergeschichten über den schwarzen Hengst Black Beauty großgeworden - dabei richtet sich der Originaltext von Anna Sewell an Erwachsene. 1877 veröffentlichte die engagierte Tierschützerin ihren Roman und machte sogleich mit einer neuen Idee Furore: Erstmals erzählt ein Tier darin seine eigene Lebensgeschichte - die Autobiographie eines Pferdes eben. Ein großer Roman über Ausbeutung und Ungerechtigkeit, aber auch die Kraft der Freundschaft.

They were words the horse was never to forget, no matter how far from that meadow the trail of her life led her -- and it led her very, very far indeed. When Black Beauty was still a colt, her mother called to her, and spoke to her. "Pay attention," mother said, "to what I tell you: The colts who live here are very good colts, but they are cart-horse colts and of course they have not learned manners. You have been well-bred and well-born; your father has a great name in these parts and your grandfather won the cup two years at the Newmarket races; your grandmother had the sweetest temper...